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Confederate (CSV)

Captain

John Coker Beeks

(1820 - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 27th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enrolled on 21 August 1861 and was elected 2nd Lieutenant, Company G, 27th Georgia Infantry on 10 September. He was promoted to First Lieutenant on 20 February 1862. He was wounded in action at Seven Pines, VA on 31 May 1862 and promoted to Captain on 13 July.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died of wounds on 21 September 1862 at the US Army's 2nd Division/2nd Corps field hospital on Susan Hoffman's farm at Sharpsburg. He was originally buried "west of George Line's house in his new ground along side of an old white oak tree near his pond" near the battlefield at Sharpsburg.

After the War

He was probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.

References & notes

Burial information from Pruett,1 who has him as J.C. Beeks. His service from the Roster.2 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Death detail also in a list in the New York Times of 12 October 1862, as J.C. Beck. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Some family genealogists have his birth year between 1810 and 1815.

Birth

1820

Death

09/21/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Washington Confederate Cemetery, Hagerstown, MD

Notes

1   Pruett, Samuel, and Poffenberger & Good, Greg Farino and Western Maryland Regional Library (WMRL), Washington Confederate Cemetery, possible burials, Hagerstown (MD): WHILBR, 2010  [AotW citation 4555]

2   Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964  [AotW citation 19493]